Time runs through my fingers. I spent autumn biking through a beautifully colorful Stockholm, trying to finalize some results to our Volta basin project while at the same time trying to come up with ideas for an advertised PhD position at the SRC. Managing those two very different stages of the research process at once, the creativeness needed for coming up with research ideas and the very rigorous and critical stage of project finalization, is hard. I’ve felt torn between interests and have found it hard to focus. But it is also something that I will have to learn to deal with, if I plan on sticking around in academia.
Winter came as a chock to Stockholm with the second week in November getting more snow than any other month of November on record. Trump was elected to be the next president of the US, and I woke up to a crying roommate at the breakfast table. And then the snow melted into a more normal, wet, gray and dark November.
Wouldn’t it be nice, then, to reminisce back to the summer – the trips, the people, the books. Allow me to enjoy my dark Sunday afternoon…
Katja Malmborg 